JPA Prize in 2016

JPA Prize Medal

The great contributor awarded the 2016 JPA Prize was as follows:

Bart De Spiegeleer

Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis

Drug Quality & Registration group

Ghent University

Belgium

The three outstanding editors awarded the 2016 JPA Prize were as follows:

1. Su Zeng

College of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Zhejiang University,

China

2. Yifeng Chai

School of Pharmacy

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The Second Military Medical University

China

3. Zhiguo Yu

School of Pharmacy

Shenyang Pharmaceutical University

China

The three excellent referees awarded the 2016 JPA Prize were as follows:

1. Tai-Jun Hang

School of Pharmacy

China

2. Florin Marcel Musteata

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

United States of America

3. Dimitrios Tsikas

Centre of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Hannover Medical School

Germany

The three top cited papers awarded the 2016 JPA Prize were as follows:

1. Pei Wang, Zhiguo Yu*. Species authentication and geographical origin discrimination of herbal medicines by near infrared spectroscopy: A review. Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2015, 5(5): 277-284.

Fig. 3 Three-dimensional score plot using PC1, PC2, and PC3 for discrimination Ganoderma lucidum from three provinces,class1, Shandong Province; class2,Anhui Province; class3, Zhejiang Province.

2. Daniel J. Liput, Eleftheria Tsakalozou, Dana C.Hammell, Kalpana S. Paudel, Kimberly Nixon, Audra L. Stinchcomb*. Quantification of anandamide,oleoylethanolamide and palmitoylethanolamide in rodent brain tissue using high performance liquid chromatography-electrospray mass spectroscopy. Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2014, 4(4): 234-241.

3. Chao-Zhan Lin, Min Hu, Ai-Zhi Wu*, Chen-Chen Zhu*. Investigation on the differences of four flavonoids with similar structure binding to human serum albumin.Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2014, 4(6): 392-398.

Fig. 3 Interaction mode between HAS and the flavonoids (1) (A), (2)(B), (3) (C), and (4) (D), respectively. The hydrogen bonds between the four flavonoids and HAS are represented using yellow dashed line. The structures of the four flavonoids are represented using stick model, and the key residues of HAS are represented using line model.